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"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."
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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."
"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"
"It is better to be kind than be impolite."
"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
"Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself."
"Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them."
"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."
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"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."
"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."
"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."
"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."
"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."
"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."
"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."
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